title: Eliminating the paper medical archive by bulk document scanning of historic folders and implementing revised workflows for scanning new documents.
abstract: We made the decision in our hospital to radically eliminate the paper archive by bulk scanning over a million medical records. This reorganization goes together with installation of new workflows for injecting information that is still captured on paper as automatically as feasible into the electronic medical record. In this article we describe our organizational and technical approach and we highlight principles which our experience suggests to be useful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Technology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. erwin.bellon@uzleuven.be
authors.forename: Erwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bellon
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feron
authors.forename: Klaas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Peeters
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sweertvaegher
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Neyens
authors.forename: Herman
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Homble
authors.forename: Christel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ons
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lagae
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van den Bosch
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014584:User-Computer Interface